Commentaries
Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.* * * Every public speaking expert will tell you to get to know…
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In “The Bell Curve,” an article written for The New Yorker (December 6, 2004), Atul Gawande uses the term “positive deviant” to describe unusually effective performers in the field of medicine. In fact, there are outliers in all fields. To Gawande,…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from MG Siegler‘s article featured at the TechCrunch website. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige: Every…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * …
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg McKeown for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by…
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From time to time, I come upon material that seems especially interesting and, more to the point, valuable. Here is one example: The 10Minutes series from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC), a Delaware limited liability partnership. * * * We recognize how…
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How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow…
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Still another baker’s dozen of memorable quotations
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “The one…
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